What You Should Know: - Flare Capital Partners, a Boston-based healthcare technology venture capital firm closes its third fund with $350M, which follows up on its prior two funds raised in July 2019 and the inaugural fund raised in April 2015, respectively. - The most recent fund, establishes Flare Capital Partners as one of the largest, independent, early-stage venture capital firms dedicated to healthcare technology. “When we started the firm in 2014, over $4.5 billion was invested
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Transformation Capital Launches $500M Digital Health Fund
What You Should Know: - Transformation Capital
Partners, L.P. (“Transformation Capital”) announced the launches of it’s
$500M growth equity fund, Transformation Capital Fund II, L.P. - The new fund will focus on investing between $10 to $30M in
commercial-stage digital health companies and technology-enabled service
businesses that are improving the healthcare system. - Led by Todd Cozzens, Dr. Jared Kesselheim and Mike Dixon, Transformation
Capital manages over $800 million across the
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2020 H1 Deep Dive on the Global Digital Health Sector Landscape Report
What You Should Know: Global venture capital firm White Capital publishes its first series of sector reports diving into the global digital health sector focusing on virtual care, mobile health, software, and communication, while also exploring the outlook of the sector from North America, Europe, and Asia. In Q1 of 2020, $9.8bn of new VC capital was invested in digital health globally, which is 12% more than what was invested in Q1 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided an accelerated
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Mercom: Global Digital Health VC Funding Down 6% at $8.9B in 2019
- New Mercom Capital annual report reveals global venture capital (VC) funding in digital health declined 6% at $8.9B compared to $9.5B in 2018. - Total corporate funding into Digital Health – including VC funding, debt, and public market funding - dropped 18% to $10.6 billion in 2019 compared to $13 billion in 2018.- Five digital health IPOs brought in a total of $1.4 billion in 2019Global venture capital (VC) funding in digital health, including private equity and corporate venture, declined
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Intermountain Ventures Invest in Omada Health to Expand Relationship
- Intermountain Ventures, the strategic investment arm of Intermountain Healthcare has invested in digital care leader Omada Health. - The announcement expands the relationship with Intermountain Healthcare that began five years ago in 2016 and comes off the heels of Omada’s recent $73M funding round. - The Omada Program became a covered benefit for Intermountain employees and their adult dependents in 2019.Today, Omada Health announced a milestone investment from Intermountain Ventures, the
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Ajax Health Closes Third $100M MedTech Innovation Fund
- Ajax Health raises $100M to close third medtech innovation, Ajax3 led by HealthQuest Capital with participation from Polaris Partners. - Led by Duke Rohlen, Chairman and CEO, Ajax3 quickly follows the $100M raised in April 2019 for Ajax 2. Ajax Health, Menlo Park, CA-based company investing in medical innovation, today announced it has raised $100 million to form its third Medtech innovation fund, Ajax3. The $100M in capital will target investments in companies in the areas of
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The Rule of 40 in Health IT: Should your Company Prioritize Profitability or Growth?
George Bailey, Associate at Healthcare Growth Partners (Left)Laura Gama, Investment Banking Analyst at Healthcare Growth Partners (Right)
Among the venture capital and growth equity community, a common rule of thumb for software companies is the “Rule of 40”. The rule simply states that a healthy software company’s net profitability + revenue growth rate should exceed 40%. This rule provides a guideline to balance the trade-off between revenue growth and profitability, a question many of
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OSF Ventures Invests in LRVHealth’s $100M VC Fund as Limited Partner
OSF Ventures, the corporate investment arm of OSF HealthCare, is joining other health care systems and strategic investors from within the healthcare industry as a strategic limited partner (LP) in Boston-based LRVHealth's $100M "Inside Healthcare" venture capital fund. As part of LRVHealth’s collaborative innovation platform, OSF will help identify, create and invest in early-stage companies spanning healthcare IT, tech-enabled health services, medical devices, and diagnostics. Why
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Providence Ventures Closes $150M Fund to Foster Healthcare Innovation
Providence Ventures, the Venture capital arm of Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH) has announced a second $150 million healthcare venture capital and growth equity fund. Founded in 2014, Providence Ventures manages $300 million in venture capital funds on behalf of Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH), the nation's third-largest health system. Providence Ventures Second Health Fund Focus AreasProvidence Venture's investment strategy is focused on identifying the best opportunities that align
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The New Walking Dead: Why 98% of Health Tech Startups Are Zombies
Health investor and entrepreneur Dave Chase says 98 percent of health tech startups are zombies right now—but the Quadruple aim could help some rise from the ashes to begin anew.Billions in venture capital (VC) funding may have poured into digital health over the last few years (more than $4.5 billion in 2015 alone), but it looks like many startups may have bitten off more than they can chew, and as a result, imminently face biting the dust before reaching profitability. At least, that’s the
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